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Friday, 10 August 2012

Summer pleasures + a book recommendation

Summer pleasures - yes we have summer here at last - include sitting in the sunshine with a cup of tea and my current reading material. This is the bench just outside the back door where I often sit with my cuppa weather permitting and where I have been enjoying my afternoon tea and a rock bun warm from the oven (sadly not in the photo as I'd already eaten it!) today.

Seldom does a book have such an effect on me that I feel compelled to tell you about it but this one was such an unusual story and told in the most beautiful prose that I simply couldn't put it down. I am sorry that I have finished it as I wanted it to go on forever! If you haven't already read it I urge you to search it out both for the wonderful descriptions of the Alaskan countryside (that word is far too tame for the place described which is a harsh and unforgiving wilderness yet with its own beauty) and for the story which was a sort of modern fairy tale and not my usual choice of reading at all but I just LOVED it!

I'd love to know what you think of it if you do read it.

I have been very remiss in not thanking all those of you who have so kindly posted comments on my recent blog posts - thank you all and welcome to those new followers who have joined me - can't believe I now have 188 people who enjoy what I write enough to add me to their lists!

Thanks for telling us about the book, it's now on my list! I'm glad you spent some time sitting in the sun at last! Mmmm rock buns....haven't made them for a while but I do love them, something else to add to my list :)Have a happy weekend, Jane. Hope the sun keeps shining there.Helen x

If passion is not too strong of a word to describe these, cooking and reading are such for me! Thank you for sharing the title!Alaska is breathtaking but I found it anything but tame! It inspires deep emotions however and you cannot forget its beauty!